Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

Source: Gemma Correll – I Love Charts. Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. What better way than in Excel. Step 1: Which Chart is Best? If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to gauge and chart your user’s behaviors while they’re on your WordPress website? Essentially, the tools and programs for creating a heat-map build an “overlay” of your various site’s pages, and areas that attract more activity appear “hotter” than sections that experience low activity.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Randy shows viewers how ChatGPT can transform charts into data tables, automatically add third-party data, run calculations, and create compelling visual representations—all without requiring manual input. In the latest Tech for Good episode , Randy Paynter reveals how AI is revolutionizing spreadsheet management.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. They need intuitive tools that enable communication and that work right when they’re needed. Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half the tools and devices that infiltrate our lives—and with producing, updating, and controlling these devices. But what if you’re not a data geek who gets excited about a robust data set with a couple of lovely pivot charts? Data gives us context. How do I care for my data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Media Applications and Tools.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

Segmented Chart of Accounts A segmented chart of accounts makes it easy to follow a fund all the way from donation to invoice so you can clearly see how the funds are being allocated. It also simplifies your account string, making your chart of accounts more streamlined and easier to understand.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

And thankfully there are some great tools for doing just that. Loaded with analysis tools, it also contains a video feature that lets you see exactly what problems exist that are making your site sluggish and quick tips for correcting any issues. Here are five worth investigating. Google PageSpeed Insights. WebPagetest.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

You won’t get this time back when the economy is booming and sales are off the charts. Look across your association to determine which tools are currently frustrating your team, if your team is even using all available tools, and what you might want to add or replace. Plus, your future self/team will thank you.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2013

Telling your data visually is now easier than ever with the help of web-based infographic tools. Tools for Creating Infographics, Charts, and Diagrams. Making a useful, shareable infographic or chart takes some planning. is my tool of choice when it comes to making visually-appealing charts.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Additional connectors can support bringing in data from other sources, such as your accounting system, digital marketing tool, direct mail toolset, and/or other repositories of data that you maintain. . As an advanced analytics and business intelligence tool, Tableau can help you identify patterns in your data and develop your strategy.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

“Born from necessity, the pandemic catalyzed the shift to a more digitally-driven selling process, and consequently thought leadership has become an increasingly important top of the funnel marketing tool.” Be Deliberate Thought leadership is an important top of the funnel marketing tool. So, this exercise is also a marketing tool.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

Throughout 2017, our team introduced some of the most cutting-edge tools to help empower nonprofits to not only reach, but exceed their goals. Psst, most of these tools are exclusive to EveryAction so you won’t find them anywhere else! Psst, most of these tools are exclusive to EveryAction so you won’t find them anywhere else!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When evaluating an accounting system for your nonprofit, look for a segmented chart of accounts and record-based subfund tracking capabilities. You get more granular tracking for easier reporting without creating an unmanageably long chart of accounts.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 8, 2010

A while back, we looked how your non-profit can use visualization tools to help tell the human story behind your data and statistics, along with some free tools and inspiring examples to make your own infographic. Yes, you’ve seen some of those visualization tools reviewed here already.( read more ).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and fundraising tools play a significant role. It can be helpful to think of these tools not as separate elements but as complementary forces in your mission to engage, nurture, and expand your community of supporters. They also deliver insights into what donors like and how they behave.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Diagramming tools are great if you want to create a flow chart or map of your computer network, projects that are too complicated for Microsoft Paint but too simple for Photoshop. A closely related subject is charts: pie charts, line charts, scatter plots, Venn diagrams, and the like. Tools Web 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In this 2-part series, I'm going to focus on the rapidly changing world of interactive tools for data visualization, or dataviz. These tools are especially useful for nonprofits and financial organizations whose brands rely on sharing metrics to deliver impact and value.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

For the next few months, we’re taking an in-depth look at key features and tools that make for a successful development program. Here are some key tools your nonprofit should have to meet your reporting needs: Customizable reports that allow you to get roll up data and detailed data. Enter our new series, “New Year, New Heights.”

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2012

Welcome back for the second part of my series on interactive data visualization (dataviz) tools. In part one , we covered three cool tools for visualizing charts and graphs and many other data types on a webpage.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. Don’t miss the pre-conference workshops to help you get the most out of Financial Edge NXT, from building your chart organizer to digging into personalized reporting with Insight Designer.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

The quality and accuracy of the datasets you’re working with increase when you present them in attractive graphs, charts, shapes, and plots. The Ask Data Tool. Tableau’s Ask data tool has increased its popularity among users all around the world. Tableau is the most extensively used data visualization application.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Keys to Datamaking Success Many of the tools and techniques that we have learned about data design and collection continue to be relevant in datamaking, such as: Ask clear questions and prioritize which data points, or combinations of data points, are most relevant to answering the questions. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

In the marketing world, the challenges are usually most pronounced for me with things like color-coded spreadsheets, charts or graphs using vague pastel shades. Depending on the chart or graph you show me, I may or may not know what it’s trying to communicate. One such example tool for this is Accessibe. and ADA.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The concepts can range from technology tools, to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific. We’ve seen several associations exporting data from their online communities and analyzing it with artificial intelligence tools to extract member sentiments and find fresh solutions to problems.

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Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Brilliantly, this same classes tool in QuickBooks can be used to track a nonprofit program revenue and expenses. nerdalert) Using this method, you can allocate a percentage of staff salaries, general overhead, and direct program costs to each program WITHOUT adding a gazillion lines to your Chart of Accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Most of think about infographics as part of our marketing and communications tool box. I’ve been looking for free, low cost, easy-to-master tools and templates to reduce some of the sweating. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. My favorite free tool for doing that is Wordle.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Then I elaborate with my true opinion of Project: it's a great tool if you're building a bridge or a luxury hotel. Real world projects require far more agile and accessible tools. You want to use tools that your project participants can access easily, preferably ones they're already using. Related tool: the telephone.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2024

DRMs can directly address industry challenges by offering tools for personalized communication and targeted outreach to support relationship building and retention. Predictive analytics are a powerful tool for uncovering your most generous donors. It’s not easy to keep track of manually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is a Twitter analytics tool. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. I’ve been looking for a tool like this and grateful that Avi Kaplan told me about Snapbird. Storify is a content curation tool.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

In short, the charts that Google makes available are slick, especially in the way they animate data. Google's tools can be of benefit to wide-ranging nonprofits that work with data. Even better, Google offers this service for free (other than the roughly 30 minutes to an hour it will take you to build your animated chart).

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Queries and reporting tools will provide an efficient means of building a list of relevant activities. Be sure to save those query results so they can be reused, or even use an export tool if you need to share it with other users. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

With their unique combination of images and words, infographics are a powerful storytelling tool. Infographics are a communication trend that illustrate data in an attractive, easily digestible format.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

A board matrix can be a powerful tool to point the selection process in positive directions. An organizational chart. You might not be able to pick your team, but there are plenty of circumstances that you can control. One of the most important is how you introduce new members to their responsibilities or onboarding the board.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The tools and APIs within our Blackbaud products are designed to be intuitive. Now, if a board member or business officer asks for a report, we can quickly produce one using tables, line graphs, or charts and send a PDF or link to the report. And that person does not need to know how to write code to help us accomplish our goals.

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